Author: Vikki Blake

A “FrostyFest Update” is coming to Splatoon 3 in the new year. The next Splatfest will launch on 13th January, with the vote – which wants to know who you’ll be spending the holidays with; family, friends, or “solo”, which just seems like a nicer way of saying alone – running from 5th January until…

Rare footage of Super Mario 64’s multiplayer mode has seemingly popped up online. Following a 1996 interview with Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto, we at least knew that there had been plans to make Luigi a playable character. A stunning leak in 2020 later confirmed it, showing that Super Mario 64 included character models for both…

Google has extended its deadline to let you adapt your Stadia controller to use with other systems. At the beginning of the year, Google confirmed it would release a “self-serve” tool that would make its proprietary Stadia controller function wirelessly on other platforms via Bluetooth. At the time, Google said the upgrade option would be…

Netflix is producing a video game set in the universe of Squid Game. Netflix head of gaming Mike Verdu recently revealed the company has more than 10 games in development at its in-house studios, and plans to have 86 games available for subscribers to play by the end of the year. To see this…

Hideo Kojima says that when he parted ways with Konami, he was “opposed” by peers, colleagues, and relatives” who told him that going independent would “never work”. In a statement shared to X/Twitter overnight, Kojima also reflected on why he continues to make games, saying that one of the reasons he became an independent developer…

Tencent has reportedly shut down Team Kaiju, a subsidiary of TiMi Studio Group. Although the closure has yet to be formally announced, a LinkedIn post from an alleged former employee there reveals that the official website, kaiju.gg, now only loads a 404 page, and the studio’s former LinkedIn listing now leads to a “this LinkedIn…

The Game Awards 2023 has broken its own viewership record, clocking up around 118 million livestreams. Host and producer Geoff Keighley confirmed the numbers on X/Twitter, revealing that the 2023 awards were streamed live across 17,000+ channels and 30 platforms, including Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and X/Twitter. With 103m global livestreams in 2022, that’s…

22cans has confirmed it is withdrawing Godus and Godus Wars from sale on Steam. The studio – founded by Lionhead Studios’ Peter Molyneux – blames issues with a “technical change” coming to Amazon Web Services, saying that the change is “affecting [22cans’] ability to serve necessary game files to new users”. The team stopped short…

Poppy Playtime – the horror mascot game that’s been scaring the bejesus out of us for the last couple of years now – is finally making the jump to consoles. Chapter 1: A Tight Squeeze – which was first released on PC back in 2021 – is set to debut on PS4 and PS5 on…

Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay over £44 million to settle a 2021 sex discrimination lawsuit. The Wall Street Journal reports that further to an agreement made with the California Civil Rights Department (CCRD) regarding unequal employment practices on the basis of sex, the megacorp has agreed to pay £44.1m ($56m) to settle claims of…